Pandemic Status

Guest: Syra Madad, Epidemiologist, Senior Director, System-wide Special Pathogens Program Office, NYC Health + Hospitals COVID-19 cases are surging across the United States. Is this the wave we were expecting to arrive with flu season? Are there more cases because we’re doing more testing? Or are these high rates of infection being driven by something else we ought to be worried about? Let’s set politics aside and get some facts about the state of the pandemic.